Repeats every month on the third Sunday until Sun Nov 24 2013 except Sat Oct 13 2012, Sun Dec 16 2012, Sun Feb 17 2013.
12:00 pm Sunday, October 21, 2012
This event will be held at:
Kadampa Center
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
3:00 pm Saturday, October 13, 2012
A movie about Venerable Robina Courtin's extraordinary life.
In a packed 52 minutes, the extraordinary life of this irrepressible dynamo unfolds, racing through the turbulent early years into a kind of Buddhist calm that is glimpsed only when she is quietly telling her mala beads in a railway waiting room or a plane. The rest of the time the focus, the commitment and the fanatical energy remain. She still bumps headlong into her own anger and impatience; she is still intolerant of phoniness; and she can still cry over the unhappy, lonely death of her father.
In a final scene, Ven. Robina says, “I spent my life trying to get what I wanted and nothing stopped me from pushing obstacles out of the way . I was trying to change whole worlds, (to) give up attachment, give up jealousy, give up anger, for me the most sensible thing is to be a nun and after 20 years it is absolutely what I wanted.”
Excerpted from MANDALA magazine
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
3:00 pm Wednesday, October 17, 2012
According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, doing Tonglen meditation "is the most powerful purification for you and also for collecting extensive merit. It is the quickest way to achieve enlightenment and to be able to liberate numberless sentient beings in each realm from the oceans of samsara’s sufferings and bring them to enlightenment."
Come learn about this meditation practice of giving and taking that is part of the lamrim (from the section on bodhichitta). Special guest and FPMT teacher Karuna Cayton will be explaining this important practice of transforming the mind.
This event will be held at:
Kadampa Center
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
3:00 pm Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Guru Puja is a practice consisting of making offerings to and requesting inspiration from the Spiritual Master. Spiritual vows and commitments which might have degenerated are also restored through the practice of tsog offering (feast offering). In this practice, we unite our minds with the holy mind of the Spiritual Master, who is considered the root and life-force of the spiritual path in order to receive blessings and generate realizations on the path to enlightenment.
We need merit, or positive energy, for our enlightened potential to grow and become perfect and one of the best ways to do that is to make beautiful offering and prayers to the Three Jewels and to our Spiritual Teachers. This is what happens in the Guru Puja. A special type of offering called tsog is made. Here we offer platefuls of fruits and biscuits, which are distributed afterwards to the participants. The tsog can be eaten by oneself or shared with friends who have faith in the Three Jewels, but should not be given to animals or thrown in a dirty place.
Written by Ven. Sangye Khadro
This event will be held at:
Kadampa Center
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
Repeats every week until Wed Oct 31 2012 except Tue Oct 09 2012, Tue Oct 16 2012.
3:00 pm Wednesday, September 26, 2012
This incredibly precious opportunity for teachings by Geshe Gelek on the The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim Chenmo) means learning in-depth the step-by-step to enlightenment. The Lamrim Chenmo was written by Lama Tsong Khapa, the founder of our (Gelugpa) lineage and the foundation of all our practices, including tantra. This class is open to all students, but be sure to prepare by reading the first volume of the Lamrim Chenmo, available in Kadampa Center's bookstore (proceeds benefitting the stupa project) or many online book sellers.
There will be a student discussion and meditation group on Mondays at 7:00pm (starting Sept. 24th) in the classroom building as a way to deepen understanding of the teachings. Students should be attending Geshe-la's class or listening to the recordings. Since the discussion is with peer facilitators rather than a teacher, it is recommended only for students who have completed Discovering Buddhism and so can build on that foundation.
This event will be held at:
Kadampa Center
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
Repeats every week until Tue Oct 30 2012.
3:00 pm Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Meditation 101 is an introductory course on basic Buddhist meditation techniques for complete beginners. It teaches basic Buddhist meditations that can be used by anyone to create more peace and happiness in daily life. David Machles will be leading this session. In keeping with our tradition, the class is offered on a donation basis and no pre-registration is needed. This course will be led by Venerable Lhamo.
The basic Buddhist meditation techniques covered include: What is meditation? Breathing meditations Mindfulness meditations Visualization meditations
This event will be held at:
Kadampa Center
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
10:00 am Sunday, October 21, 2012
Part 3 of our Weekend Workshop with Karuna Cayton
This weekend workshop has useful tools for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. We each have the potential to transform our suffering into happiness, to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced in Buddhism for more than 2,500 years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive and react — the way the mind misleads.
Author and psychotherapist Karuna Cayton presents the essence of Buddhist teachings about the nature of mind so that anyone can use them. The practical exercises and inspiring real-world examples he provides show how one can neutralize suffering and step onto the path of a radically liberating self-understanding. The workshop is based on his book of the same name, which is an excellent source for more information about these techniques.
“Much of Buddhist thought encourages us to embrace our problems like old friends. It even encourages us to seek out our problems as a way to train our minds and to break free from the control of our disturbing (but sometimes unseen) emotions. Great practitioners like the Dalai Lama even claim to enjoy problems because, like our best friends, problems honestly and accurately reflect ourselves back to us. There is no clearer measure of our interior health than the nature of our problems.”
~ Karuna Cayton
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
5:30 am Saturday, October 20, 2012
Part 2 of our Weekend Workshop with Karuna Cayton
This weekend workshop has useful tools for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. We each have the potential to transform our suffering into happiness, to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced in Buddhism for more than 2,500 years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive and react — the way the mind misleads.
Author and psychotherapist Karuna Cayton presents the essence of Buddhist teachings about the nature of mind so that anyone can use them. The practical exercises and inspiring real-world examples he provides show how one can neutralize suffering and step onto the path of a radically liberating self-understanding. The workshop is based on his book of the same name, which is an excellent source for more information about these techniques.
“Much of Buddhist thought encourages us to embrace our problems like old friends. It even encourages us to seek out our problems as a way to train our minds and to break free from the control of our disturbing (but sometimes unseen) emotions. Great practitioners like the Dalai Lama even claim to enjoy problems because, like our best friends, problems honestly and accurately reflect ourselves back to us. There is no clearer measure of our interior health than the nature of our problems.”
~ Karuna Cayton
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
3:00 pm Friday, October 19, 2012
Part 1 of our Weekend Workshop with Karuna Cayton
This weekend workshop has useful tools for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. We each have the potential to transform our suffering into happiness, to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced in Buddhism for more than 2,500 years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive and react — the way the mind misleads.
Author and psychotherapist Karuna Cayton presents the essence of Buddhist teachings about the nature of mind so that anyone can use them. The practical exercises and inspiring real-world examples he provides show how one can neutralize suffering and step onto the path of a radically liberating self-understanding. The workshop is based on his book of the same name, which is an excellent source for more information about these techniques.
“Much of Buddhist thought encourages us to embrace our problems like old friends. It even encourages us to seek out our problems as a way to train our minds and to break free from the control of our disturbing (but sometimes unseen) emotions. Great practitioners like the Dalai Lama even claim to enjoy problems because, like our best friends, problems honestly and accurately reflect ourselves back to us. There is no clearer measure of our interior health than the nature of our problems.”
~ Karuna Cayton
Location at Kadampa Center:
Gompa
Repeats every week until Mon Oct 29 2012.
3:00 pm Monday, September 24, 2012
Examine the mind and how it creates happiness and suffering. Learn the Buddhist definition of mind, and how to transform destructive thoughts and attitudes to create a positive and joyous mind! With Robbie Watkins
